Gertrude Atherton Quotes

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Gertrude Atherton

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• If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Spirit
  • Ghosts
  • Playwrights